Quotes About Servanthood

The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.

In the name of Jesus Christ" (suggesting that the words to be spoken are not his own but, rather, are Christ's words and Christ's will).

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

Tu F.O.R.M.A. revela tu ministerio, pero tu corazón de siervo muestra tu madurez. No se necesita un talento o don para recoger la basura o arreglar las sillas después de una reunión, cualquiera puede ser siervo. Todo lo que se necesita es carácter.

Servants focus on others, not themselves. This is true humility: not thinking less of ourselves but thinking of ourselves less

IN GOD'S KINGDOM, many things are the opposite of what you'd expect. To be great, be a humble servant. To be strong, recognize your weakness. To be close to God, admit the darkness and depravity in your heart.

He told His followers, become a servant of all. To rise up, stoop low. The last shall be first, and the first last.

Jesus had chosen to lay aside the trappings of power that were His right and come humble and approachable, a servant. Man saw it as weakness; Jesus did it from strength. He had arrived with nothing to prove but His Father's love.

The first step to leadership is servanthood.

True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.

Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

Jesus, may there be less of me and my junk and more of You and Your kingdom." I will reduce, so He can increase.

And as it turns out, as soon as we are willing to be the last, we actually become first. When we admit we are least, we feel like the greatest. And when we lose our lives, we find it all . . . all the love, all the life, all the thrill, all the fulfillment.

We forget the gospel when we neglect our adoption and think that we're still just a hired servant. The Father doesn't let us come to him on those terms. We will either come as sons or we will stay with the pigs. He won't let us earn anything from him because there will be no boasting in his sight. It will either be that Jesus and his glorious gospel has the preeminence or we will go it on our own.

If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. It wants to gain, to capture by every means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to rule.

Those who wish to stand tallest must kneel lowest.

12 El precepto mío es que se amen unos a otros, como yo los he amado a ustedes. 13 Que nadie tiene amor más grande, que el que da su vida por sus amigos. 14 Ustedes son mis amigos, si hacen lo que yo les mando. 15 Ya no los llamaré siervos: pues el siervo no es sabedor de lo que hace su amo. Mas a ustedes los he llamado amigos: porque les he hecho y haré saber cuantas cosas oí de mi Padre.

But this is what servant-hood within the fellowship of believers is all about: being alert to the little things that need to be done and then doing them.

God cannot entrust His power to someone who doesn't want it enough to be willing to deny self and embrace suffering and sacrifice.

he never discouraged the disciples from wanting to be first; he just told them what first looks like in his economy: If you want to be first, then you must be last. If you want to be first, you must become the servant of all. He didn't try to diminish their ambition; he tried to redirect their intention.

The call to servanthood finds its power only when it is received by those who are on the pursuit of greatness.

David had one posture: servanthood. Because he saw himself as a servant, he was a shepherd like no one had ever known.